Steve Hammer, LSCSW

Steve Hammer is a licensed social worker with four decades of experience helping people facing stress, anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, and trauma. He approaches each person with respect, sensitivity, and practical support. He aims to make the first steps toward change feel manageable and human.

Steve adapts conversations and plans to fit each person's situation. He listens for what matters most and focuses on doable steps rather than jargon. Sessions emphasize clear goals and skills people can use between meetings.

His work covers common relationship strains like communication problems, divorce and separation, blended family challenges, and fatherhood issues. He also supports people dealing with codependency, isolation, guilt, shame, and forgiveness concerns. Obsessive-compulsive symptoms, dissociation, and control issues are part of his experience as well.

Steve has substantial background addressing trauma and abuse and offers approaches that help people rebuild daily functioning. He also brings experience with veteran and armed forces issues and with mood conditions such as bipolar disorder.

Therapeutic methods include cognitive behavioral strategies, client-centered listening, dialectical behavior tools, emotionally-focused techniques, and solution-focused planning. Steve combines these approaches to match what a person needs, keeping the work practical and goal-oriented.

How therapeutic approaches shape online care

Steve often uses cognitive behavioral therapy to help people spot unhelpful thoughts and try small behavior changes. CBT is useful for anxiety, depression, OCD-type concerns, and stress by giving concrete exercises to practice between sessions.

He also uses client-centered therapy, which focuses on listening carefully and reflecting what matters to the person. This approach helps people feel heard and shapes goals that fit their values and daily life.

Finding the right approach is part of the process. The therapist works collaboratively to choose or blend methods based on the client's goals, symptoms, and what feels most helpful. That plan can change over time as progress or new needs appear.

Online formats include video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging, which offer flexibility for different schedules and comfort levels. Video is useful for a fuller face-to-face feel, phone sessions work with limited bandwidth, live chat can be a quick check-in, and messaging supports ongoing brief contact and homework between meetings. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family life, or other obligations.